This comedy, from 1932, may be his most dapper and daring endeavor: the tale of two crooks (Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins) who steal from each other by way of titillation, then turn their attention to a French heiress (Kay Francis) who needs to be stripped bare of her millions.
It's these rocs, too, that finally fly Baudolino and his comrades back from their failed search for the kingdom of Prester John to Constantinople in 1204 -- a daring juxtaposition of fairy tale and grim historical reality that would be liable, if witnessed, to stop even the most drink-sodden marauding crusader dead in his tracks.
While the arrangement led to future decades of fireside tales about daring, lightning strikes by Confederate cavalry veterans, it also stripped Pemberton of adequate forces for reconnaissance.
But on Thursday, Rabbi Youlus stood inside the federal courthouse in Manhattan and confessed that he had made up those tales of daring.
The tales of daring escapes by Allied soldiers from a stalag or Colditz Castle have been told many a time in print and action movies.
Tales of daring escapes became a fixture in the Western media, including acrobat Horst Klein, who dangled off a disused cable as he made his way to the West inch-by-inch.
Then Daring Fireball played tattle-tale and told the world about how Google was exploiting the iPhone's proximity sensor to activate the voice search, which breaches the iPhone's API.
The entries run the gamut from tales of daring and sacrifice from the official citations of Medal of Honor recipients to short offerings about changes of command.
Alexander Graham Bell's development of the telephone, inspired by his love for a deaf woman, reads like a romance; the tale of the daring wartime raid in which British troops stole a German radar station reads like a thriller.
This tale of Kathleen Boyd daring to become a bullfighter in Mexico in the 1950s delivers many moments of truth — the emotional truth of Kathleen's coming of age against her narrow options, the political truth about the price she pays for challenging convention, and the literary truth of a character who transcends the time and place and circumstances of her story.
